Smogon Shoddy Server Statistics - November 2008

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Sorry for the delay in getting these stats put up this month. I was trying to get some new stats added, and I had numerous bugs that kept coming up. I finally decided to abort my new stat functions, and I ran the regular stats that I have done in the past. Maybe next month I will have my new "surprise" ready for everyone. Until then, you'll have to make do with these -- (that's not so bad, right?)

Usage and Leads are listed in the posts directly below this one. As you'll see, there is a new king pokemon on the Standard ladder! I'll wait and see what the rest of you think about the changes from last month before throwing in my two cents....

Since we did not have a suspect ladder last month, you will notice there are no suspect stats either. Common sense probably, but I wanted to make it clear, so you guys don't hit me with PM's asking "Where are the suspect stats?"

These stats were gathered from 257,808 individual battles that were fought during the month of November on the Smogon Shoddy Battle Server.

hitmontop is used so much in uu because ...fantastic defensive capabilities, a good rapid spinner because of sr resist, stone edge and close combat available (with STAB on CC), techtop, and to top it off, can easily beat common pokemon such as swellow, steelix, froslass, ect.

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Shaymin-s at 17th surprises me, if it's an Uber as over 50% of the voters seem to believe, i would have thought it would be higher ranked. Never the less, it doesn't really mean anything about it's overall ability.

I won't lie, none of this surprised me a whole lot OU-wise. I knew Rhyperior would climb out of BL eventually (fuck yeah!!!) and stuff like Shaymin-S being where it is. Flygon wasn't a real shocker either thanks to that nifty EdgeQuake resist and obtaining Outrage helped it out.

Uber-wise: here's something that I would've thought wouldn't be here: Scizor at #9. That's quite interesting actually. Even the king of mediocre (Deoxys-S) has hit #10, surpassing Deoxys-A and Deoxys-D.

Meh, Slowbro should be used more IMO. >_>; And Electivire... I rarely see these things anyway, wonder how it magically hits #30.

Dusknoir has a little more of a vast movepool compared to Spiritomb. In reality, its limited to its Dark and Ghost-type moves. Granted, its offensive and defensive capabilities are above par, and Hidden Power patches the problem of the moves; however, I feel that Rotom's usurped Spiritomb in the Spin blocking department. Dusknoir has a few more uses I guess with a bigger physical movepool (Focus Punch, Earthquake, Elemental Punches) and other "grab bags".

hitmontop is used so much in uu because ...fantastic defensive capabilities, a good rapid spinner because of sr resist, stone edge and close combat available (with STAB on CC), techtop, and to top it off, can easily beat common pokemon such as swellow, steelix, froslass, ect.

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All those capabilities existed for Hitmontop even months back, but last time, Hitmontop was 300 usages behind the most used UU (Claydol) but, this month, it leads Clefable by 800 usages. Also, Clefable has risen by around 2400 usages... Since as far as i know neither of those gained any striking new move (like Scizor's BP), What exactly caused this increase?

Scizor finally got his place under the sun... as an old Scizor fanboy (since from the GSC era, when I got my first one), I may say I'm quite happy (but still surprised, as it's not impossible to counter!) with this. Now let's ban it =D

Cool that the top 3 pokémon have pretty close numbers. Back to the Garchomp era, it was always he at 100k and Gengar at 80k. Things are really more balanced now that the landshark is gone.